Rocky Mountain Cookies Recipes

ROCKY MOUNTAIN COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar until creamy. Add flour and vanilla. Add ground almonds and mix. Chill for about 1-2 hours.
• Mold small amount of dough around each kiss, completely covering the chocolate. Place in ungreased baking sheet and bake at 300°F for 14-18 minutes. Halfway through baking reverse the baking sheet. Cool cookies slightly and roll warm cookies in a plate of confectioners sugar.
• Watch these cookies carefully as they bake. The bottom of the cookie should only be lightly brown.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN COOKIES (NO BAKE)

Steps:

• Melt dark chocolate over gentle heat.
• Combine marshmallows, cereal, cookies, peanuts and cherries.
• Pour the melted chocolate over nut/cereal mixture and combine well.
• Spoon mixture onto waxed paper lined baking sheets in mounds that resemble (very roughly) little mountains.
• Melt white chocolate. Spoon some white chocolate on each cookie and let it run down the "peak" like snow caps on a mountain. Makes 38 cookies.
• In the Kitchen with Bonnie Stern.

MOUNTAIN COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Combine flour and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture and mix well. , Shape into 1-in. balls; place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Make a deep indentation in the center of each cookie. Bake at 350° until the edges just start to brown, 10-12 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool completely. , For the filling, in a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, sugar, flour and vanilla until smooth. Add pecans and coconut. Spoon 1/2 teaspoon into each cookie. , For topping, in a microwave-safe bowl, melt chocolate chips and butter with water; stir until smooth. Stir in sugar. Drizzle over cookies.

ROCKY ROAD COOKIES WITH MARSHMALLOWS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Combine brown sugar and butter in a bowl; beat until creamy. Beat in egg. Mix in flour, 1/2 of the chopped chocolate, cocoa powder, and baking powder until dough comes together.
• Drop spoonfuls of the dough onto a cookie sheet, allowing enough room for the cookies to spread. Flatten slightly.
• Bake in the preheated oven until edges are done but tops are a bit gooey, about 5 minutes.
• Remove from the oven. Push remaining chocolate and mini marshmallows into the tops. Continue baking until tops are set, about 5 minutes more. Be careful to remove cookies before marshmallows burn.

CHOCOLATE ROCKY ROAD COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). In a small sauce melt together the butter and 1/2 cup of the chocolate chips, stirring frequently. Remove from heat and set aside to cool.
• In a medium bowl, stir together the melted chocolate mixture with the sugar, eggs and vanilla. Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt, stir into the chocolate mixture. Finally, stir in the chopped nuts and remaining chocolate chips.
• Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls onto unprepared cookie sheets. Press a miniature marshmallow into the center of each cookie. Bake for 7 to 8 minutes in the preheated oven. Remove from baking sheets immediately to cool on wire racks.

SNOWY MOUNTAIN COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. In another bowl, whisk flour and salt; gradually beat into creamed mixture. Add chocolate chips and, if desired, walnuts; mix well. Divide dough in half. Shape each into a disk; wrap in plastic. Refrigerate until firm enough to roll, about 30 minutes., Preheat oven to 325°. On a lightly floured surface, roll each portion of dough to 1/4-in. thickness. Cut with a floured 2-in. triangle-shaped cookie cutter. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake until edges begin to brown, 10-12 minutes. Cool on pans 2 minutes. Remove to wire racks to cool completely., Meanwhile, in a microwave, melt white baking chips; stir until smooth. Dip cookie tops in melted chips; sprinkle with nonpareils. Let stand until set.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN COOKIES

Steps:

• Mix margarine and butter together with dark brown sugar and granulated sugar until creamy. Add eggs, milk, and vanilla and stir.
• In separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add to the butter mixture a little at a time and mix thoroughly. Add oats and stir. Then add chocolate chips and walnuts and mix completely.
• Bake at a 350 degrees F oven for 8-10 minutes. Cook on pan for 1-2 minutes, then move to a wire rack to complete cooling.